O preconceito nas relações sociais entre homossexuais e heterossexuais : uma análise documental

Abstract

Prejudice and discrimination are embedded at the core of homophobia which plaguing the Brazilian society and contributes to the maintenance of the status quo of heteronormativity through discourses and practices that aim at delegitimizing relations and male and female homosexual rights. The objective of this study was to identify and reflect on the factors that enhance homophobia perpetrated against LGBT's people in Brazil, considering that regarding the relationship between/of heterosexuals and homosexuals, the legitimacy and empowerment of LGBT's confront and frighten heterosexuals. For this, based on the analysis and interpretation of the data provided by the researches Diversidade Sexual e Homofobia no Brasil – Intolerância e respeito às diferenças exuais (Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2008) and Você tem medo de quê? – Um estudo inédito entre jovens brasileiros sobre o medo entre homossexuais e heterossexuais (Design de Causas, 2014) were made bibliographical and documentary analysis. This work concluded that the break of this marginalization system could be given through increased debate, information and awareness of society and institutions in order to minimize and eradicate stigmatized and stereotyped vision that heterosexuals have about LGBT's. Added to this, it is of paramount importance to implement affirmative actions and public policies that seek to give greater visibility and legitimacy to this social level historically discriminated.